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Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Nouns in Grammatica Turcico Latina
Nurdan BESLİ, Yaşar TOKAY
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Japanese aru, iru, oru 'to be' : [oru ist bin aru] [PDF]
Among the Japanese expressions for 'to be', the verbs aru (unmarked), iru (animate subject) and oru (humble variant of iru) are of special interest (cf. Martin 1975: 194f. for a descriptive account). We may look for cognates of these verbs in the (other)
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers NO. 19 [PDF]
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Dvornik, Francis
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Turkic-Mongolian Names of Wild Predatory and Fur-bearing Animals in the Mongolian Languages
The article reviews a group of terms for wild prey and fur-bearing animal nominalization with the aim to identify their Turkic roots. The investigation is based on the materials of the Khalkha-Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk and Old Mongolian languages.
V. Rassadin, S. Trofimova
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On Uzbek converb constructions expressing motion events [PDF]
Converbs, which are widely used in Turkic languages, constitute a number of converb constructions conveying aspectual and Aktionsart meanings. These constructions, often called 'auxiliary verb constructions', have been well studied.
Vandewalle, Johan
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Pitfalls of the geographic population structure (GPS) approach applied to human genetic history: a case study of Ashkenazi Jews [PDF]
In a recent interdisciplinary study, Das and co-authors have attempted to trace the homeland of Ashkenazi Jews and of their historical language, Yiddish (Das et al. 2016.
Changmai, P +5 more
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Abstract This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno‐Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on feminist approaches to geopolitics and post‐socialist coloniality, it asks whose security is served by a ‘geopolitical’ EU in Armenia and how ...
Laura Luciani
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